Historical and current population DNA reveals that there are at least 12 species of rocket frogs, three of which are already extinct (IMAGE)

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Historical and current population DNA reveals that there are at least 12 species of rocket frogs, three of which are already extinct

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Measuring about the size of a human fingernail, frogs of the genus Dryadobates can easily go unnoticed by the human eye, but they play an important role in amphibian biodiversity 

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Taran Grant/IB-USP

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